Briefings

Regents meet June 2122

The rescheduled Regents May meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. June 21 in the Regents Room of the Fleming Administration Building. Public comments begin at 4 p.m. June 21. The meeting will resume at 9:30 a.m. June 22.

Individuals with disabilities who wish to attend the meeting and need assistance should contact the Regents Office, (734) 764-3883. For TTY services, call (734) 647-1388.

Business School to host venture capital symposium

The Business Schools Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance (CVP) will host the 20th annual Growth Capital Symposium June 1920. The conference will feature several prominent venture capitalists, institutional investors and high-tech entrepreneurs, who will give insight on the current investment climate.

The conference will be held at the Business Schools Hale
Auditorium. It is sponsored by the Michigan Economic Development Corp.,
Munder Capital Management, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Dykema Gossett PLLC.
For more information or to register, call (734) 936-3528.

McElvain retirement party is June 21

The University
community is invited to a reception honoring Thomas McElvain, University
registrar, 35 p.m. June 21 in the Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union.
McElvain is retiring after 19 years at the University.

Workshop
to assist mature drivers

The Turner Senior Resource Center will
host a two-day, eight-hour workshop designed to help seniors review
driving laws and procedures. The workshop, which will help participants
to determine their own abilities when driving, will be held
12:304:30 p.m. June 20 and 22 at the Turner Senior Resource Center.
The cost is $10, and participants must attend both sessions. For more
information or to register, call (734) 998-2373.

Medical School
seeks nominations

The Medical School Deans Office is seeking
nominations for its Community Service Award, a recently established award
that recognizes a faculty members community contributions.
Nominations are being accepted through June 25. For more information,
call Sandra Heskett, (734) 615-6981.

IM summer games begin July
1

The Intramural (IM) Sports Program will take entries for 2001
summer term in softball, sand volleyball, 3-on-3 basketball and roller
hockey June 28 at the mandatory managers meetings. Times of the

Graduate School collaborates with Responsive Ph.D.
Initiative

The Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies has
been selected to serve as a collaborator by the Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation in its Responsive Ph.D. Initiative. U-M and 13
other universities chosen will serve as demonstration sites, modeling
innovative practices that the foundation will help to disseminate
nationally.

The initiative aims to improve teaching preparation,
encourage more minority students to obtain doctorates, foster
interdisciplinary collaborations and connect intellectual work more
closely to society.

Turner Clinic offers consultation

The Turner Geriatric Clinic and the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation
are providing free advance directives consultation. Trained volunteers
are available to discuss living wills, durable powers of attorney for
health care, values and end-of-life decisions. App-ointments are
available 13 p.m. Mondays at the Turner Senior Resource Center,
Suite C, 2401 Plymouth Road. For more information or to schedule an
appointment, call (734) 764-2556.

Employees recruiting for vanpools

U-M employees
from the Flint/Fenton and Toledo/Dundee areas are seeking more vanpool
riders. All vanpoolers ride free until September 2002U-M pays for
their transportation and parking space. Parties interested in riding or
driving from the Flint/Fenton area who work a five day/eight hour shift
should contact Lisa Salame, (734) 647-3401. Those working a four day/10
hour shift should contact Jolanda Richard, (734) 615-6698. Employees
interested in vanpooling from the Toledo/Dundee area should call Suzanne
Welch, (734) 769-7100, ext 5593.

Seminar to discuss role of
foundations

The School of Education will host the seminar
The Role of Private Foundations in Shaping Higher Education in the
United States July 913. John Burkhardt, clinical professor of
education, will conduct the seminar with speakers from several major
national and state foundations.

The five-session course will be
organized around a number of topics, including the historical, legal and
philosophical basis of foundations, and how private foundations can shape
higher education. Part of the seminar will explore Web-based research for
foundation related topics. Space is limited to no more than 20 people,
and following the course, participants will be required to submit a
summary paper. For more information, call (734) 615-8882.

Predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships available

Predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships are now available through the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) and provided by the Center for
Organogenesis Training Grant. The goal of this National Research Service
Award is to provide two years of support to Ph.D. students who have
achieved candidacy and post-doctoral fellowships (Ph.D. and/or M.D.)
and who wish to undertake a research project in the field of
organogenesis. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
One postdoctoral and four predoctoral slots are available. The
application deadline is July 20. For more information, call Rebecca
Pintar, (734) 936-2499.

Next Record due out July 9

The next issue of the University Record will be July 9. The
deadline to submit information for the Briefings, Calendar and Applause
sections is 5 p.m. July 3. Display advertising must be received in the
Record office by 5 p.m. July 2. To contact the Record, call
(734) 764-0105, or send an e-mail message to urecord@umich.edu.

School of Public Health receives grant

The Office of
Community-Based Public Health in the School of Public Health has received
a six-year grant of $960,000 from the Ruth Mott Foundation. The grant
will provide a variety of graduate and undergraduate internships and
summer enrichment opportunities with Flint community-based health
organizations.

While the principle focus will be on the
community-based educational experiences provided to the students, the
grant programs also will provide support to Flint-area community-based
organizations and health service providers. For more information, call
Toby Citrin, (734) 936-0936.

Photography exhibition at
Pierpont

A photography exhibition by Ann Blackwell, lecturer in
art, will be on display July 228 on the Pierpont Commons Gallery
Wall. The exhibition centers on the theme of home and what it means to
Blackwell. There is an opening reception 47 p.m. July 6. For more
information, call the Arts and Programs Office, (734) 647-6838.

Social work clinic receives grant

The School of Social
Works Family Assessment Clinic has received a two-year grant of
$144,190 from the Hasbro Childrens Foundation for a pilot program
that provides early assessment of serious cases of child maltreatment.
According to Kathleen Coulborn Faller, professor of social work and
director of the Family Assessment Clinic, the goal of the program is to
identify situations and solutions early enough so that children will
have a greater probability of remaining with their families and receiving
good, quality care from their parents. For more information, call
(734) 998-9700.